Programming/development Books

So here's the deal. I dropped out of university... a few times... and have fallen back upon writing software for a living. I'm very conscious of the fact that having never studied it at college I am probably not following best practices etc.

I work mainly in C# but would like to expand my knowledge and study properly on my own. Anyone suggest any good texts for me?

tl/dr: Good programming books for students?

The best programming book would be one that taught people not to be so fucking helpless. Every fucking forum is filled with these pathetic fucks that are completely unable to solve any problem themselves and will just keep repeating the same question until given a predigested answer at which point they move on to the next thing, repeat ad nauseaum.